Yuccan It up
Posted By teeni on July 9, 2007
This plant has been in my yard and has done nothing but just sit there looking green for the last six years. I didn’t even know what kind of plant it was. My sister-in-law #2 (SIL#2) told me that it was a yucca plant. Well, I suddenly got curious about it only because this year for some reason it started growing a stalk that was already as tall as me before TGH and I noticed it. Then the stalk started getting huge buds on it and it is now taller than me. Today it had all these pretty flowers on it and I looked up a little about it on line. I’m not even sure if we are supposed to have these around here or what kind of yucca it is. It will just be my luck to have it be the kind that does nothing for six years, blooms in the seventh year and then dies. Well, at least I got all these pictures. 
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Cool plant and pics tho!
that’s interesting; there are yucca’s here and I thought they bloomed yearly. Is it especially wet or dry there this year?
Every year is different it seems, but the weird thing is there are two plants that look the same a couple feet away from it, but we haven’t seen a stalk on those yet.
On second thought, we have had a rain barrel on that corner of the house for several years to catch rain water from the roof, so we can water on off days of our water ban. This year we moved it, so that corner is getting extra water from the downspout. The plant with the stalk is near the corner, while the other plants are further away from the corner, so maybe the extra water is the difference. Thanks for jogging the memory on that one.
Oh, that makes sense - maybe it was the extra water this year. Nice thinking, there Heather! TGH and I both had to think about it for a minute!
It’s very pretty. It doesn’t look much like the yuccas we have in our garden, but it’s very different. I like it.
Yucca’s roots can be opened to make soap. Just add water. It has alot of properties.
Very nice find.
Thank you PurpleZoe! I never would have known that. Now I have to do more research on the yucca. I probably won’t use mine for soap unless it looks like it is going to die anyway though because those flowers are just too cool.
lol @ last two sentences… Teeni, you still crack me up!
On some old mid-50s sci-fi flick, there was a part where one of the characters mentioned using the yucca plant for soap…he was out in a lake (supposedly naked) lathering up a piece with his hands. I guess that was a kind of neat way to learn of it. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one in real life, but the pics you took are quite pretty.